Example sentences of "[subord] more [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in marked contrast to the situation in some other European countries where more formally theoretical disciplines came to be placed at the curricular core of the nation . |
| 2 | Rehydration can occur within four hours if the spadefoot is in water , but it can also take place , albeit more slowly , if it simply sits in or on damp soil . |
| 3 | The firm application of market methods of control would have yielded a rise in interest rates which would have provided , albeit more slowly , the allocative mechanism rather than the banks having to discriminate against one customer in favour of another . |
| 4 | The cambroclaves may be allied to echinoderms , albeit more tentatively , because of their arm-like arrays of articulated sclerites ( Fig. 3 c ) . |
| 5 | Given the character 's added rebellious nature — playing chess on the Ottawa security link and receiving calls from her small boy on the Downing Street red line ( ‘ I ca n't give him my office number , that 's a state secret ’ ) — she fully exploits the rich comic potential of the role while not missing the pathos of the woman striving to hold her lover , albeit more idealistically than emotionally . |
| 6 | Its example was followed , although more slowly , by woollens . |
| 7 | In the next chapter we consider events which are unexpected and which shock the couple into making a response ; for example , the discovery of an affair can destabilize a relationship to the point of breakdown , although more frequently it triggers a re-evaluation of the partnership and some heart-searching as to why it was necessary to draw attention to problems in the marriage in this way . |
| 8 | We were allowed to help with the work of the farm , although more often than not I suspect we hindered the wheels of labour . |
| 9 | The need for better planning , and the need to organize and consider training courses within the overall framework of each individual 's development needs was mentioned in various ways , by a fifth of the sample , ( see Table 25 ) , although more often by larger libraries ( see Table 30 ) : |
| 10 | Dionysiac wisdom was now promulgated openly , ( sometimes through its own mythology , although more often ) it was mediated through the Olympian mythology associated with Homeric epic . |
| 11 | She was n't always an Englishwoman either , although more often than not the headmaster gave one of his parents British nationality . |
| 12 | The acquisition of evidence and the presentation of evidence are linked , of course , in that it may be necessary to decide what should be presented before it is acquired although more usually it is a matter of presenting what can be acquired . |
| 13 | I have used this service for selling , although more so on the buying side , having been tempted on numerous occasions ! |
| 14 | ‘ Then you can do so today — at the barbecue , ’ Lucy hissed , suddenly infuriated with them both , although more so with Silas than with Doreen . |
| 15 | Palynology has been adopted by many biogeographers and pollen analysis was the basis for the reconstruction of the detailed vegetation history of many specific areas although more recently emphasis has changed from individual sites to the reconstruction of patterns of change in Britain ( e.g. Barber 1976 ) and in the tropics ( e.g. Flenley , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | A well-known rationale for regional policy interventions is that countries with extensive regional imbalances in economic activity appear more prone to suffer inflationary pressures , and to suffer them sooner , than more spatially balanced nations . |
| 17 | This is the detective novel or the crime novel which makes its comments on life through humour rather than more directly . |
| 18 | Erm and that may be one of the way is which apparently affectionate abuse , if you can call it that , erm may be er in some ways more difficult to deal with than er than more frankly violent abuse . |
| 19 | Dowsing is no more objective than more obviously and directly ‘ psychic ’ methods , particularly where it is concerned with detection of earth energies rather than physical artefacts , water , and so on . |
| 20 | There are several signs in the twelfth edition that the writer still hankers for the old methods , despite the necessity for tempering some of the more repressive advice , and the book remains far more authoritarian in tone than more recently written baby books . |
| 21 | And if you are still not convinced , then Parker says that customer demand for mainframe capacity continues to grow healthily , even if more slowly than the good old days . |
| 22 | It was just as apparent elsewhere in Africa , if more insidiously so . |
| 23 | So too , if more modestly will John Major 's budget , the ‘ savers ' budget ’ of a year ago . |
| 24 | The 1990 figures , provided more recently by the Ministry of Justice , show a dramatic increase to 447 death sentences , mostly for murder under aggravating circumstances . |
| 25 | It can often be a mistake to team up an easy-going person with a dominant horse , because more often than not the horse will run rings round its rider . |
| 26 | This is because more recently reconnected field lines are always closer to the open/closed field line boundary which lies at the equatorward edge of the cusp . |
| 27 | Most surviving examples are in well laid , massive stonework , while more rarely concrete with brick facings is used . |
| 28 | Grace notoriously pocketed £9,000 from his second testimonial while more modestly W. W. Read managed a respectable £1,000 from a Surrey vs . |
| 29 | Thus in the 1920s Walter Elliot argued that Conservatism was based on -an observation of life and not a priori reasoning' , while more recently Sir Ian Gilmour declared that Conservatism is ‘ not an ideology or a doctrine ’ . |
| 30 | First , and best known , is GoScript while more recently Freedom of the Press has also been making a few headlines . |